Femme It Forward Give Her FlowHERS Gala - LA

Femme It Forward Give Her FlowHERS Gala - LA

Khat Rabbani arrives at the 4th Annual Femme It Forward 'Give Her FlowHERS' Awards Gala 2025 held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 21, 2025 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA, USA. (Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM)

Femme It Forward Give Her FlowHERS Gala - LA

Femme It Forward Give Her FlowHERS Gala - LA

Khat Rabbani arrives at the 4th Annual Femme It Forward 'Give Her FlowHERS' Awards Gala 2025 held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 21, 2025 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA, USA. (Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/ABACAPRESS.COM)

Ox-cart racing held in Cambodia

STORY: Ox-cart racing held in Cambodia DATELINE: April 3, 2023 LENGTH: 00:04:12 LOCATION: KAMPONG SPEU, Cambodia CATEGORY: SPORTS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the ox-cart racing 2. SOUNDBITE (Khmer): KHAT SOKHAY, Head of Kampong Speu Provincial Oxen Association STORYLINE: Villagers in the Rolaing Sangke village, some 46 km west of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, on Sunday hosted an ox-cart race event, a centuries-old tradition. At the annual event, contestants raced their ox-carts pulled by two oxen on an 800-meter-long track. It was held to mark the end of the rice harvesting season and the upcoming Khmer Lunar New Year, which will begin on April 14. SOUNDBITE (Khmer): KHAT SOKHAY, Head of Kampong Speu Provincial Oxen Association "Since the generation of my grandparents, I have always seen this tradition of ox-cart racing at the end of the rice harvesting season. Today, there are 38 pairs of oxen participating in the race. As this traditional sport is on the brink of disappearance, I'd like to appeal t

Life in Somaliland

Life in Somaliland

HARGEISA, Somalia - Men put khat, which has a component like a stimulant, into bags on March 19, 2012, in Hargeisa, capital of the unrecognized breakaway republic of Somaliland in northwestern Somalia. The international community sees Somaliland as part of Somalia despite the former's self-declared independence in 1991.

Israeli musician revives old Yemenite melodies with self-made instruments

STORY: Israeli musician revives old Yemenite melodies with self-made instruments DATELINE: June 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:08 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. Eyal el Wahab playing his instrument 2. El Khat video clip 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): EYAL EL WAHAB, Musician 4. More of Eyal playing 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): EYAL EL WAHAB, Musician 6. Eyal making instruments 7. Recycled instruments 8. El Khat video clip 9. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): EYAL EL WAHAB, Musician 10. Eyal making instruments 11. El Khat video clip 12. Eyal playing instruments STORYLINE: Eyal el Wahab has been playing guitar since five. Later in life, he became a cellist. Four years ago, he felt he was missing something in his musical journey, something about his family roots in Yemen. When the Wahab family and some other 50,000 Yemeni Jews emigrated to Israel shortly after the Jewish-majority country's establishment in 1948, most of them were in dire conditions. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of their descendants in Isra

Life in Somaliland

Life in Somaliland

HARGEISA, Somalia - Men put khat, which has a component like a stimulant, into bags on March 19, 2012, in Hargeisa, capital of the unrecognized breakaway republic of Somaliland in northwestern Somalia. The international community sees Somaliland as part of Somalia despite the former's self-declared independence in 1991. (Kyodo)